Friday, January 15, 2010

Friday Fun with The Character Cafe!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! Welcome to The Character Cafe's Weekly Friday Challenge!! Our challenge, issued by one of our super fab DT members, was the following:

use only ONE Designer Paper

limitless layers

buttons

ribbon

I chose to work with the RIDICULOUSLY ADORABLE "The Serenade" image!!! Perfect for my FAVORITE holiday...VALENTINE'S DAY!! I love it. I always have!! I love the candy, the colors, the cuteness, everything about Valentine's day is just simply divine to me!!

My base is Martha Stewart Cardstock that I purchased in a huge pack on sale at Michael's. The next layer is SU! Tempting Turquoise...my favorite all time color in crafting! The sparkly red paper is Doodlebug designs 'sugar coated' designer paper that I just picked up the other night at The Paper Source. I'm hoarding it by only using a little because I love it so much! LOL!

You'll notice that I used a cool loopy stitch on my NEW! sewing machine to stitch those 3 layers together. I then colored up my cutie pie with my Copics and Sakura Gel Pens. I also added some glittery fun with my glue pen and Martha Stewart glitter in Turquoise. I backed my image with black cardstock and adhered it with pop dots.

My buttons are from my LSS, decorated with ribbon and cord and adhered with pop dots. Lastly, I tied a pretty, sheer, turquoise ribbon in a loose knot a the bottom to balance everything out.

We'd love for you to come play along with us using this week's challenge!!! You could win 2 free TCC images!!! Please link your creation in my comments section to be entered to win!!!

I also want to announce the winner of the adorable Love Bug Cupid image that I used on last weeks New Release Blog Hop. My winner is Mary!!! YAY!! This is a super cute image for that lovey dovey day!! Mary - head over to The Character Cafe Store in order to contact Kendra with your e-mail address so she can send you your new image!!!

I'm a stay at home wife to my darling hubby of almost 19 years. I'm also a homeschooling Mum of 3 small, beautiful, delicious and often sticky children and a gorgeous and sweet pitbull named Katie.
I've always loved art, crafting and photography. I find time every single day to work one or all of these into the mere 24 hours that we have daily. I find it fulfills my soul, my mind and keeps my "zen" in check.